La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Bloomberg (New York, NY) nel mese di dic 2011
Colloquio
After applying through Bloomberg's website, I received an email about a week or two later saying that I had made it through a round of resume screening and I was asked to take an online skills assessment test. This test consisted of basic IQ sort of things (shape rotations/reflections), or things you might see on the LSAT exam (given 8 statements, what order did the horses place in a race?)
2-3 days after the IQ Test, I was asked to set up a phone interview which took place the following week. Because I don't have a computer science background, they asked "Get to know you" type questions about my past experience, and then asked targeted questions that are basically round-about ways to get you to consider computer science problems.
Within a week I had been asked for an on-site interview, which I went to a few weeks later. This interview consisted of three stages. In the first, I met with three interviewers who asked me questions to gauge my understanding of algorithms and high level design, and they asked me to write down a program in full syntax for the language I had the most experience in (Java). In the second round, I met with a senior member and he asked questions to gauge my interest and fit with the company, as well as to gauge my ability to transition into an IT position from an engineering background (What makes you think you would be happy doing this type of job every day when your experience is primarily in research?) The third and last round consisted of meeting with a man from HR and he asked very general questions, then gave me a super-brief tour around 2 floors of the building.
Domande di colloquio [3]
Domanda 1
How would you go about designing Facebook's "Suggest a friend" feature? How would you choose WHICH people to suggest as friends?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite l'università. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Bloomberg (Indianapolis, IN) nel mese di feb 2019
Colloquio
They had info session at school. I submitted my resume online and got the on-campus interview. The interview is 1 hour. Two engineers are the interviewer. Small talk at the beginning. Ask 1 or 2 questions about the resume. And then ask two technical questions. I finished the first one. But I did't have enough time to completed the second question. The first one is a string question. The second one is a tree question.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Bloomberg (Londra, Inghilterra) nel mese di dic 2018
Colloquio
It was a very candidate-friendly interview process, had flexible on-site dates. Amazingly quick feedback. Overall a great experience.
Technical phone screen with an engineer (2 simple/average coding questions)
On-site (technical and behavioral rounds)
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Simple/average coding questions. Understanding recursion, stack, and heap, some basic C++ features, data structures characteristics
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Bloomberg (New York, NY) nel mese di nov 2016
Colloquio
- There was one phone interview with a Bloomberg engineer.
- The onsite interview started with a so called tour of Bloomberg but abruptly ended with a museum of their colorful terminals. It was over in 5 minutes. The group of interviewees laughed a little when it ended.
- 2 rounds of technical interviews with a break of ~20 minutes. Found it easy. Mix of algorithm and design questions. All interviewers look satisfied when they left me.
- HR and recruiter forget that I exist. Forget to contact me for the next 40 minutes or so. I go to their front desk to inquire whether there are more rounds.
- HR appears slightly irritated but is polite. Next 30 minutes, HR tries to understand why after 6+ years of computer science education and working for a couple of years I "chose" to be a software engineer. Does not want to hear technical stuff. Had a hard time believing I could fit the role. I wondered whether I should have taken Psychology and then become a recruiter so I could judge potential candidates of a different discipline.
- At the end of the interview, was asked to "patiently" wait for the next round. Within 5 minutes, one more guy turns up and says the conference room is booked. Was once again asked to goto the front desk. Bloomberg office is huge and not all elevators goto front desk. :-( Reach somehow.
- Once again try telling the front desk people that I have an interview. Give the name of the host. Host appears after 15 minutes. Asks how the interviews are going.
I say "not that great". Asks whether - "Do you want to stay?". I lower my head and say "yes".
- In the conference room, realizes that the manager is out of office and the manager does not have my resume. Arranges a video conference. Asks the manager over conference to not keep him "busy" since he has a flight in flat 2.5 hours.
- Manager tries to understand how I ended up interviewing at Bloomberg and what role she could give me if I was chosen. It was nice but nothing productive. Interview ends in 30 minutes.
- Meet the so called organizer of the whole process. Asks whether the interview was awesome. I say it was "ok". Goes on a tirade on how people like me have a low attitude and should be happy to meet awesome people. After all, the process took only a day.
- Keeps repeating "Hope you get it". "Hope you get it" with a smirk while I collect my luggage and thank her for all the arrangements.
- Leave broken hearted and look tearfully at Lexington tower while I rush to the airport.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
1. Deep copy a linked list with a random pointer.
2. Perimeter of the wall enclosed by an enemy. Eg:
121
121
If the enemy is labeled 2 in the above matrix, the wall size is 6.
3. Design a circle class and then on, utilities on top of it including randomly generating a point within a circle. How do you translate to polar coordinates and what changes I would make. What changes would be required for a Square/Rectangle/eclipse etc.